{"id":17887,"date":"2024-01-28T08:47:38","date_gmt":"2024-01-28T08:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=17887"},"modified":"2024-01-28T08:47:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-28T08:47:38","slug":"north-korea-fires-multiple-cruise-missiles-off-east-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2024\/01\/north-korea-fires-multiple-cruise-missiles-off-east-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea fires multiple cruise missiles off east coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; North Korea has fired several cruise missiles off its east coast, South Korean military officials said, continuing a streak of weapons tests that have drawn condemnation from the United States, South Korea and Japan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The missile launches follow North Korea\u2019s test launch on Wednesday of the strategic cruise missile \u201cPulhwasal-3-31\u201d, which Pyongyang has suggested is capable of carrying a nuclear warhead.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said in a statement on Sunday that it detected several missiles over waters near the North Korean port of Sinpo, where Pyongyang operates a shipyard that manufactures naval assets including missile-firing submarines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile strengthening surveillance and vigilance, our military is cooperating closely with the United States and monitoring additional signs and activities from North Korea,\u201d the JCS said.<\/p>\n<p>Pyongyang has ramped up weapons tests in recent weeks, including the launches of a purported \u201cunderwater nuclear weapon system\u201d and a solid-fuelled hypersonic ballistic missile.<\/p>\n<p>While North Korea is not banned from testing cruise missiles under UN sanctions, which prohibit more sophisticated ballistic technology, the launches are likely to inflame tensions in Pyongyang\u2019s already strained relations with Washington, Seoul and Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>Despite international sanctions and censure, Kim has made major strides in advancing his country\u2019s illicit ballistic missile programme, which analysts say has been bolstered by cooperation with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>North Korean leader Kim Jong Un earlier this month said that South Korea was his country\u2019s \u201cprincipal enemy\u201d and that peaceful reunification of the Korean Peninsula was no longer possible.<\/p>\n<p>The US, South Korea and Japan have responded to Pyongyang\u2019s tests by carrying out expanded joint military exercises, which Kim has cast as rehearsals for an invasion.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea\u2019s state-run Korean Central News Agency on Sunday condemned the drills, vowing \u201cmerciless\u201d consequences and warning that the country was \u201cfully prepared for a deadly war\u201d.<\/p>\n<h6><strong><em>SOURCE: AL JAZEERA<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; North Korea has fired several cruise missiles off its east coast, South Korean military officials said, continuing a streak of weapons tests that have drawn condemnation from the United States, South Korea and Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":17889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,1,984,978,976,194,982,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-0_swnen","category-news","category-security","category-politics","category-world","category-international","category-politics_","category-headline"],"views":50,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17894,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17887\/revisions\/17894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}